Re: Res: Res: [tied] Origin of *marko- (was: Hachmann versus Kossack

On 2008-04-15 10:57, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> > On 2008-04-15 09:30, tgpedersen wrote:
> >
> >> Hunnic loan?
> >
> > Into Gaulish??
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> ================
> Dear Piotr,
> Your brilliant suggestion, as usual, seems more probable with *caballos
> than
> with *markos.

The double question mark above expresses disbelief.

> By the way,
> If Celtic received the proto-form *mar-kos from a proto-Germanic *mar-kos,
> itself from Asiatic *mor,
> it means Grimm happened _after_ Germanic and Celtic started having contacts.

That's clear anyway, given several examples like *h3re:g^- > dial. Celt.
*ri:g- > PGmc. *ri:k-. It is also possible that the ancestors of the
Germani borrowed the word from Celtic, in which case it would be of
_western_ rather than _eastern_ origin (and _accidentally_ similar to
the Mongolian word).

Piotr